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Laurel Young and Adrienne Pringle have published Lived experiences of singing in a community hospice bereavement support music therapy group in the journal Bereavement Care, Volume 37, 2018 - Issue 2, 55-66 Link

Dr Motje Wolf, Lecturer in Education, De Montfort University, Leicester UK, invites expressions of interest in preparing a new book ‘A practical guide to mentoring beginning music teachers', a workbook for mentors to use to develop themselves. A list of chapters can be found here.

New research in Portugal by Felix Neto, highlighted in Pacific Standard Magazine, finds youngsters feel more positively toward members of an ethnic minority if they have learned songs from their culture, How Music Can Fight Prejudice, Felix Neto, Pacific Standard. Read story here.

A new paper aimed to assess whether a country’s performance in the Eurovision Song Contest is associated with life satisfaction and suicide mortality in European countries, "Euphoria" or "Only Teardrops"?Eurovision Song Contest performance, life satisfaction and suicide, Filippos T. Filippidis, Anthony A. Laverty, , BMC Public Health, 2018; 18 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5497-3 Link

A new published paper by Lauren Stewart presents two studies that describe the development and validation of the Music@Home questionnaire, which comprises two versions: Infant and Preschool. Music@Home: A novel instrument to assess the home musical environment in the early years. Nina Politimou , Lauren Stewart, Daniel Müllensiefen, Fabia Franco. Link

New research in Portugal by Felix Neto, highlighted in Pacific Standard Magazine, finds youngsters feel more positively toward members of an ethnic minority if they have learned songs from their culture, How Music Can Fight Prejudice, Felix Neto, Pacific Standard. Read story here.

A new paper aimed to assess whether a country’s performance in the Eurovision Song Contest is associated with life satisfaction and suicide mortality in European countries, "Euphoria" or "Only Teardrops"?Eurovision Song Contest performance, life satisfaction and suicide, Filippos T. Filippidis, Anthony A. Laverty, , BMC Public Health, 2018; 18 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5497-3 Link

A new published paper by Lauren Stewart presents two studies that describe the development and validation of the Music@Home questionnaire, which comprises two versions: Infant and Preschool. Music@Home: A novel instrument to assess the home musical environment in the early years. Nina Politimou , Lauren Stewart, Daniel Müllensiefen, Fabia Franco. Link

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New research in Portugal by Felix Neto, highlighted in Pacific Standard Magazine, finds youngsters feel more positively toward members of an ethnic minority if they have learned songs from their culture, How Music Can Fight Prejudice, Felix Neto, Pacific Standard. Read story here.

A new paper aimed to assess whether a country’s performance in the Eurovision Song Contest is associated with life satisfaction and suicide mortality in European countries, "Euphoria" or "Only Teardrops"?Eurovision Song Contest performance, life satisfaction and suicide, Filippos T. Filippidis, Anthony A. Laverty, , BMC Public Health, 2018; 18 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5497-3 Link

A new published paper by Lauren Stewart presents two studies that describe the development and validation of the Music@Home questionnaire, which comprises two versions: Infant and Preschool. Music@Home: A novel instrument to assess the home musical environment in the early years. Nina Politimou , Lauren Stewart, Daniel Müllensiefen, Fabia Franco. Link

A new study by Daisy Fancourt, Effect of singing interventions on symptoms of postnatal depression: three-arm randomised controlled trial, British Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 212 Issue 2, D. Fancourt and R. Perkins, Royal College of Music, London, assessed whether a novel psychosocial intervention could reduce symptoms of postnatal depression (PND) in the first 40 weeks post-birth. Published online. Link

Stephen Clift has a new publication, Community singing groups for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: participant perspectives. Perspectives in Public Health, Skingley, A., Clift, S. M., Hurley, S., Price, S. and Stephens, L. (2018), 138 (1). pp. 66-75. It is a descriptive qualitative study which included measures of lung function and wellbeing. Link

AIRS member Graham Welch is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Volume 1 (1 ed.) Edited by Gary E. McPherson and Graham F. Welch, which aims to guide educators through the full gamut of vocal possibilities: Individual adult voices and choirs, developing young singers, and aging adults. Link

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